DEVILISH LITTLE TYKE MOVIE

His first film credit since 1994 popped up on IMDb in 2018 with Bonsall acting in a short film called Slaughsages.

DEVILISH LITTLE TYKE MOVIE

After Mikey, he would go on to have a $30 million box office hit in Disney’s 1994 family film Blank Check and co-star with Bob Saget in the 1994 TV movie Father and Scout before dropping out of acting altogether.īonsall would later play in a number of bands and have numerous run ins with the law. This type of role was a change of pace for young Bonsall who at the time was known as Andy Keaton from the hit 1980’s sitcom Family Ties.

An instant later, he nails the heartless and icy yet fascinated evil stare when he watches people die at his own doing. Mikey is a twisted little film with one creepy little kid.īrian Bonsall as Mikey does stellar work, playing up his sweet, innocent sounding voice when fooling his adoptive parents and other adults into thinking he’s an angel. It can’t be validated whether or not the film was originally intended to be released theatrically, but those commercials I remember seeing might hint at that being the case.Īlthough the film played in theaters in Germany, a theatrical release in the US never happened, and Mikey went straight to video on September 23, 1992. Having discovered Friday the 13th the previous year, my attention was immediately captured by the mention of Jason in the films tagline (at least they spelled his name right). I was 11 years old at the time of Mikey‘s release, and I distinctly remember seeing commercials on TV advertising the film. Bissett really shines here, convincingly working her way around some awkward scenes and dialogue. Mikey even puts the moves on his older, hot next door neighbor Jessie, played by Josie Bissett. “I mean, he’s just like any other kid,” says Mikey’s new adoptive mother (Mimi Craven, daughter of Wes) to her friend, Shawn (a drop dead gorgeous Ashley Laurence). Mikey responds with “yeah, but I’m a better hitter.” This after he bashes in his previous adoptive father’s head with a baseball bat. “Do you like to pitch,” asks Mikey’s new adoptive father, inquiring if the kid likes baseball. The script is always reminding the viewer of the evil of Mikey and the obliviousness of the adults around him through cheesy, wink-wink dialogue. Mikey is a sleazy and enjoyable evil kid/slasher movie hybrid with an impressively melodramatic performance from young Brian Bonsall in the title role that wonderfully matches the Lifetime movie-esque melodramatic script. He also likes to record and watch his killings, “Mikey’s Funniest Home Videos, isn’t it funny,” he menacingly asks later in the film. While Mikey may indeed be a little sloppy, it is entertainingly so - and the film goes out of its way to make a monster out of its titular character.Įlectrocution (twice), a hammer, a bow and arrow, a baseball bat, a diving board, even marbles and a slingshot, 9 year old Mikey uses whatever he can to get the kill done. Perhaps these 2 mistakes should be big enough red flags warning of a sloppy and cynical production. If that’s not a big enough oversight, one of the stars of the film, Ashley Laurence of Hellraiser fame, has her last name misspelled in the opening credits of the film: Ashley Lawrence. How many eyes passed over the poster design before the final product was officially signed off on? It makes you wonder how such a mistake was missed.

For those with a keen eye, when referring to everyone’s favorite razor fingered dream demon in the tag line, they misspelled ‘Freddy’ on the poster for the film. “Remember, Jason and Freddie were kids once, too,” is the tag-line to 1992’s Mikey. I mean come on, haven’t they ever seen a movie about creepy kids before? Just look at the twins from The Shining for example, and all they wanted to do was play! But that illusion of innocence makes the evil within these little tykes that much more terrifying. Most of the adults in both films sense the bad vibes from these kids, but can’t seem to believe there could be something wrong with the innocent children, the hope for the future. As for 1995’s Village of the Damned, these kids take a different approach and let you know right away that they’re here to give you nightmares…and probably kill you if you piss them off. The 1992 horror film Mikey follows a young boy who on the surface comes across as a polite and soft spoken kid, but really he just likes killing people who adopt him. Two films from the 1990s explored the creepy kid theme in very different ways, but both offer similar results. An orphaned kid and alien-fathered babies wreak havoc and like ending the lives of adults in “Village of the Damned” and “Mikey”.

Devilish little tyke